Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital represents the first new hospital built in York Region in the last 30 years. The new hospital will include a state-of-the-art emergency department, advanced diagnostic imaging services, modern surgical services and operating rooms, specialized ambulatory clinics and intensive care beds, and new technology to connect systems with medical devices for optimum information exchange. By late October of 2018, the topping off of the hospital had taken place, and cranes were in place lifting 300 modular washrooms into place on floors four through eight. The hospital continues on schedule, and is expected to open to patients sometime in 2020.